Firman

#11,104 in 2025Boys' name

Firm, through Firmin

Firman has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #11,104 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Firman, 2025

1 in 553,000

Firman over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Firman: meaning, origin, and history

Firm, through Firmin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Firman means

Firman belongs to the name family reached through Firman → Firmin. Its meaning is “firm”.

Origin, language, and formation

Firman is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Firmin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 199 boys were recorded with the name Firman between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1927; its best national rank was #959 in 1880.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,680 in 2015 to #11,104 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Firman?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 553,000; 6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 285,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #11,104; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 382,984 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Firman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Firman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Firmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Firman was born before 1929 — so the typical Firman is around 96 today.

Median birth year: 1929; About 96 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 9.0%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 67; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Firman rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,576; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.20×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 54.5%; Peak was 1927 (11)
Years since peak: 98; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 46.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #959; 1880

Spellings of Firman

Firman is not the most common spelling — Norman is, with 58.8% against Firman's 0.05%.

Norman58.8%253,160
Herman31.6%135,977
German2.4%10,290
Fermin1.1%4,832
Arman1.1%4,635
Kiran0.74%3,165
Furman0.64%2,758
Dorman0.44%1,898

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Firman is used

Across 1910–2025, Firman was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 333,426 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Firman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Firman by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #11,104
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #959; 1880
Peak year: 1927; 11 that year
First recorded: 1880
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 199
Count in 2025: 6

Names similar to Firman

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Gurman Wilman Firas Teoman Uthman Ousman Sriman Firmin Ryman Ahman Koleman Othman Suleman Olman Suliman Inman Zalman Hurman Noman Kayman Desman Aiman Dezman Delman

Sibling names for Firman

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Ima Berta Socorro Allene Charline Kattie Dorthy Charles

For a brother

Eldridge Jewel Delmer Wilford Lenard Dudley Trinidad Talmadge

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